1 Timothy 4:12
Do not let any one look down on you because you are young, but, by your conversation, your conduct, your love, your faith, and your purity, be an example to those who hold the Faith.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
11Dwell upon these things in your teaching.
13Till I come, apply yourself to public reading, preaching, and teaching.
Cross References
Matthew 18:10Beware of despising one of these lowly ones, for in Heaven, I tell you, their angels always see the face of my Father who is in Heaven.
1 Corinthians 16:10If Timothy comes, take care that he has no cause for feeling anxious while he is with you. He is doing the Master’s work no less than I am.
Philippians 4:8In conclusion, Brothers, wherever you find anything true or honourable, righteous or pure, loveable or praiseworthy, or if ‘virtue’ and ‘honour’ have any meaning, there let your thoughts dwell.
1 Thessalonians 2:10You will bear witness, and God also, that our relations with you who believed in Christ were pure, and upright, and beyond reproach.
1 Timothy 1:14and the loving-kindness of our Lord was boundless, and filled me with that faith and love which come from union with Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 2:15Do your utmost to show yourself true to God, a workman with no reason to be ashamed, accurate in delivering the Message of the Truth.
Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 4:7-16
Exhortation to Godliness; Exhortation to Ministerial Duties. ( a. d. 64.) 6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. 7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. 8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. 9 This is… Read the whole commentary →